Tag: scotus

Death by a thousand cuts and the 28th Amendment

The SCOTUS Six Only Believe in Religious Freedom for Christians

This Washington Post story mischaracterizes the 6-3 ruling against Damon Landor as a departure from SCOTUS rulings "expanding religious freedoms". Every ruling the story goes on to describe only expanded the ability to Christians to impose their interpretation of their beliefs in public spaces.

oh to be in 1936… or something

not me over here, yearning for the constraint of the 1930s... smdh The ruling overturned the Supreme Court's 1935 precedent that had recognized the authority of Congress to protect leaders of certain regulatory agencies from presidential removal at will. Source: US Supreme Court vastly expands Trump's presidential power